For black America, the introduction of Chappelle’s Show in 2003 was groundbreaking. It was like Dave Chappelle was taking many things we’d said in our own homes and put them on-screen, but as Morehouse professor David Wall Rice breaks down in Ebony, the show was a journey rather than a destination. Still, there was an…

No Ceilings, the most recent mixtape from New Orleans’ Lil Wayne is hip-hop du jour. It’s a standard within the genre embraced by a mass culture that tips its hat to topics profane and pedestrian, with a decidedly dangerous-sounding bent. Lil Wayne’s innovative wordplay and youthful defiance places him center amid real-life drama and connects…